18Synonyms found for threshold

Word Origin & History

threshold O.E. þrescold, þærscwold, þerxold "doorsill, point of entering," first element related to O.E. þrescan (see thresh), with its original sense of "tread, trample." Second element of unknown origin and much transformed in all the Gmc. languages; in Eng. it probably has been altered to conform to hold, but the oft-repeated story that the threshold was a barrier placed at the doorway to hold the chaff flooring in the room is mere folk etymology. Cognates include O.N. þreskjoldr, Swed. tröskel, O.H.G. driscufli, Ger. dial. drischaufel.

Example Sentences for threshold

But quickly he returned to the present, the threshold of the future.

Only then do you cross the threshold into being a real explorer with the determination to see something epic happen.

When surface temperatures rise to a comfortable threshold, they emerge.

The threshold for a master's degree is three per year, and for a doctorate, it's two per year.

Both operate campuses where estimates of the three-year-default rates approached the threshold.

In addition, there is no legal threshold for how much pain and suffering an animal can be exposed to in experiments.

If your income drops below a certain threshold, you pay nothing.

But the top five reinsurers are well past that threshold.

Malnutrition rates in some areas are five times more severe than the threshold aid agencies use to define a crisis.

He vowed to continue campaigning until someone crossed the magic delegate threshold.